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  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I explore the Internet's new datasets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity with a computationally light... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

dominated by philosophical and political discourse due to a lack of systematic evaluation. Very little empirical evidence is available to indicate whether these codes legitimately distinguish adopting companies and factories as providing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49386   Working Papers Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main theories and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

common understanding of the structural inequalities that current leaders have failed to address. Just as Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods taught techniques to analyze issues and Policy Design and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
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knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

agility, ensuring the continued alignment of a firm’s capabilities with a changing business environment. Despite advances in our understanding of the role of IT, however, we lack robust empirical data on the precise mechanisms by which IT... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

show that empirical findings linking governance, incentives, and performance, which are typically observed in isolation, can instead be interpreted within a simple unified matching framework. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

  Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

reach that level of trading volume. Building A Consumer-products Empire But the negatives haven't scared off consumer products giant Procter & Gamble. Since 1987, the company's Latin American sales have grown by 4.5 times to $2.8... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Publisher's link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.1002/smj.2303/full February 2015 Research Policy Hidden... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Emerald Group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

dynamics, including Nepal's, they have leaned toward one of two approaches: a broad view of several different countries together, or the sharp focus of a case study. Iyer and Do's method combines the best of both worlds by examining a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

out the motivation to volunteer? Since the importance of such image concerns is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. To help counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

knowledge and value creation are distributed across many actors. We propose a theory of IP modularity based on value maximization net of transaction and agency costs. We then use case examples to extend the theory into practical settings and derive strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace